The Modern Mainframe Data Center – Sharing a Tape Infrastructure Session #10932 Art Tolsma

CEO

Luminex Software, Inc.

Tom Schwartz

Systems Engineer

Luminex Software, Inc.

Steve Schwietz

Senior Systems Programmer

Agribank

Agenda

• Similarities in Tape Usage & Goals

• Mainframes and Open Systems

• Differences in Mainframe Tape Use

• Advantages of Sharing a Tape Infrastructure

• Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape Solutions

• Enterprise Wide Virtual Tape & DR

• Customer Example – Agribank

• Additional Q&A

Specific Challenges and/or Goals : Agribank LexisNexis Texas DPS

Must replace aging tape products or products facing End of Support

Reduce tape drive or library maintenance cost

Reduce tape media, shipping & storage cost

Reduce or eliminate physical tape

Need long term access to existing tape volsers

Improve & simplify all tape operations

Physical tape limited the ability to improve the disaster recovery plan RPO & RTO

Improve remote disaster recovery plan (RPO & RTO)

Reduce network bandwidth requirements to replicate virtual tape data to the DR site

Prefer a common virtual tape storage solution for mainframe & open systems DR

Most Data Centers Have Similar Challenges and Goals…

Similarities Vendors/Suppliers In Common

• Iron Mountain for tape

vaulting/transportation

• Sungard or IBM BCRS for 3rd party

DR locations

• Or self (internal) DR site

• IBM & Sun/STK for tape, virtual tape

& libraries Business Continuity and Resiliency Services

Differences Mainframe Applications are Unique

• Backup and Recovery:

• IBM’s DFdss, DDR & IEBGENER

• TSM

• Innovation FDR Products

• BMC for DB2

• Tape Management Software:

• CA-1, TLMS

• RMM

• Control T

• HSM & Archiving:

• DFhsm, CA Disk, OAM & Mobius

• Database Software – DB2

• Batch processing – Custom Applications

Advantages of Sharing a Virtual Tape Infrastructure

• Common

• Disaster Recovery Plan

• Data Protection and Security Plan

• Simplification

• Storage Administration

• Replication Policies and Management

• Support Plan

• Reduced Costs

• Storage Administration

• Leverage buying power with storage vendor

• Floorspace, energy and cooling

NFS or FC attached

Use new or existing storage

systems

Mainframe Tape Volumes stored

as standard files

Deduplication options

Replication for backup and

Disaster Recovery

RAID 6 data protection

Application transparent – non-

intrusive

No MIPS required

z/OS, MVS, VM, VSE and

OS390 supported

Works well with all major tape

management systems

SMS, MTL or Esoterics can be

used

Emulates 3490 or 3590 mainframe

tape drives

DataStream Intelligence optimizes

deduplication

Compression & replication options

Active – Active with NSPOF

Multipathing for HA configurations

Writes blocks of data exactly as the

mainframe wrote it

Enterprise Storage System Luminex Channel Gateways Mainframe

How Luminex MVT Solutions Work…

Production Site

zSeries

Mainframe

Virtual

Tape CU

Replication using WAN

(No FICON or ESCON

channel extension required)

Typical Tapeless Production and DR Configuration

Enterprise Storage

System (shared)

Open Systems

DR Site

zSeries

Mainframe

Virtual

Tape CU

Open Systems

Enterprise Storage

System (shared)

Replication is

storage-to-storage

No host software required

The Results with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape

• Improve all categories of mainframe tape use

• RPO & RTO for backup & DR is

improved

• Mainframe applications remain

unchanged

• No additional MIPS (CPU cycles) are

required

• No host software required

• Eliminate STK HSC

• IT OPEX is improved

The Results with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape

• Batch processing, HSM and archiving are

improved

• Batch processing improved through faster

mounts

• No “dual recall”

Luminex Tape Migration Services

• Elegantly designed to move tape

data without touching the tape

catalogs

• Current VOLSER #s and all

historical information are

retained in the new environment as well

• Supports all existing tape library and virtual tape

environments for z/OS

End User Experience

Steve Schwietz

Senior Systems Programmer

Agribank

The Company

• AgriBank, FCB is one of the largest four banks within the

national Farm Credit System, with $71 billion in total

assets, representing the 7th Farm Credit District.

• As the district hub, Agribank provides IT services for

associations across 16 states in the Midwest.

• Agribank employs 225 people in their St. Paul MN

corporate office.

• Mainframe Software:

• z/OS, DB2 (Image Copy), DFdss for backup & recovery,

HSM ML2, batch processing and RMM

What were our Goals and Objectives?

Improve disaster recovery time

Eliminate the delays that physical tape imposes on the DR

plan

Replace the aging IBM 3494 tape library

Replace the tape library before relocating Agribank's data

center.

Challenges/Goals:

Previous Tape Environment

Production Site

zSeries

Mainframe

IBM 3494

Tape Library

12 frames!

8x 3590 tape drives

4x 3592 tape drives with encryption

Offsite Storage Shipping Tape Media

Disaster Recovery Site

zSeries

Mainframe

Production Site

Luminex Mainframe

Virtual Tape

New Tape Environment

zSeries

Mainframe

Channel

Gateways

Deduplication

Storage

Channel

Gateway

Deduplication

Storage

Luminex Mainframe

Virtual Tape

How Did We Do?

We're completely tapeless!

Reduced floor space - From 12 IBM frames to a single 19" rack

Recovery time went from 3 days, to 4 hours

Several DR test have been successfully completed

Replaced and removed the 3494 tape library, before the data center

relocation, which saved significant $ and floor space

Benefits/Achievements

Thank You

Art Tolsma

CEO

Luminex Software, Inc.

Tom Schwartz

Systems Engineer

Luminex Software, Inc.

Steve Schwietz

Senior Systems Programmer

Agribank